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Obama Humor at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Juan Cole 04/29/2012

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This is C-Span’s video of President Barack Obama’s mostly tongue-in-cheek address at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

“[Hillary] won’t stop drunk-texting me from Cartagena.”

“It’s nice to be here in the Hilton Ballroom, or what Mitt Romney would call a ‘little fixer-uppper.’ ”

“Jimmy [Kimmel] got his start on the Man Show. In Washington that is what we call a ‘Congressional hearing on contraception.’ ”

“What is the difference between a Hockey Mom and a pitbull? A pitbull is delicious.”

“America’s dogs can’t afford 4 more years of Barack Obama; for them, that’s 28 years!”

“In my first term I ended the war in Iraq; in my second term I will win the war on Christmas.”

“I had a lot more material prepared, but I have to get the Secret Service home in time for their new curfew.”

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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